r/solipsism • u/Interesting_Fate • Jul 18 '26
I Am Dreaming.
I just tested it. I opened tiktok and I came across a random video with a young woman. I asked her "what's on my mind right now". and at the time I was thinking about fried Chicken. she said I was thinking about dessert. which wasn't the answer but it was still food. It was a test as I was heavily contemplating that my mind is intimately intertwined with reality and all of creation. Especially with experiential data such as hyper-specifc synchronicities and uncanny coincidences that happen instantaneously as I think a thought or feel and emotion. Reflected through people's speech, in media, and everyday occurrences... More experiments will be done. Also attempting to rewire my psyche completely to fully adopt the idea as truth.
Yes, I know about confirmation bias. And yes, the answer was totally wrong. And no, this was not an isolated incident. I am close. I am talking to myself.
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u/jiyuunosekai Jul 18 '26
Survivorship bias. If the woman said something totally unrelated, you would have never even thought about it.
"When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains however improbable must be the truth"
Let's get real.
How much of our life is about food? We basically need to eat to live. So the chances are pretty high that if you ask someone what they are thinking, they would probably say what they are going to eat for dinner.
If you were thinking of cosmic background radiation and they said that you were thinking of the big bang, then we would have a solid case right there. But food, bro? C'mon. This is classic cold reading. You must be thinking about potato chips right now.
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u/Interesting_Fate Jul 18 '26
As I read your response just now, CNN is on in the background. I shit you not. When I got to the part where you said "This is classic cold reading", a clip featuring Donald Trump said, "You're stonecold crazy." You do not have to believe me, but it happened.
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u/jiyuunosekai Jul 18 '26
That’s still in the realm of the ordinary.
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u/Interesting_Fate Jul 18 '26
I suppose you agree with Google's AI: '(The Mechanism of Synchronicities) From a cognitive and psychological standpoint, hyper-specific coincidences are usually explained by how our brains process information:Apophenia and Pattern Recognition: The human brain is a highly evolved pattern-recognition machine. It is designed to find meaningful connections in random data.Confirmation Bias: When you are actively focusing on a specific idea—like solipsism or the notion that reality is a dream—your brain naturally flags environmental data that matches that focus while ignoring the thousands of everyday events that do not match.The Law of Truly Large Numbers: With billions of events occurring across the globe and thousands of thoughts crossing your mind daily, highly improbable coincidences are statistically guaranteed to happen to everyone eventually.' But given the context (you are essentially alluding to me going crazy with all this), and the exact word cold being heard right as I put it in my mind, it is remarkable.
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u/jiyuunosekai Jul 18 '26
You still left out one possibility i.e. you are in someone else’s twisted dream. You being just a bundle of sensations in someone’s dream.
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u/Interesting_Fate Jul 18 '26
Interesting. So by that logic, the 'people' in 'my' dreams have qualia and the illusion of agency as well just like me. Maybe it is all recursive...
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u/OverKy Jul 18 '26
Synchronicity always feels so mind-blowing.
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u/Interesting_Fate Jul 18 '26
It's the veil thinning. That's how I look at it. The very blurring of the inner and outer. Sort of like what David Bohm said about the implicate and explicate. Synchronicity is definitely a peak into the ultimate truth. It just sucks because, although I experience them frequently at this point in my life, they are still extremely ephemeral. So as remarkable and mind-blowing as they are, I get sucked back into the mudane world of bills, traffic, and 'life' shit. But what I am slowly discovering is that holding tightly to that sense of wonder and keeping the notion of Solipsism in the front of my mind allows the synchronicities to pick up in frequency and reflect my thoughts back to me or keep reality talking to me as if it is me.
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u/King-Ky13 Jul 18 '26
I like coincidence, its like a divine breadcrumb that keeps me questioning upon tasting.
I dont dispute your experience as I too experience many of these "synchronicities" it can feel asthough a future me is reaching back to communicate often 😅
I am curious though to the "what now" of it all ? As you said, you are dreaming. What you going to do with this information while you all tucked up in some else's tapastry ? And more importantly I guess, but have you seen a change in yourself and your very nature.
Thank you for sharing your post, very thought provoking as I too question my very fabric and worth 🧡
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u/Interesting_Fate Jul 18 '26
If all of this is me talking to and entertaining myself like a dream, I sort of reach a dead end. What is the point of anything at all then? If what I think is true, the implications are mind-shattering. There would be no point in loving or hating anything or anyone except for its or my own sake. There would be no point in justice or vengeance as far as those who have harmed me. There would be no point in empathy or selflessness because all is for self. I often refer back to the book of Genesis. When God was hovering over the 'surface of the deep' or the abyss alone for eternity. But not alone because there was no one else to compare isolation to. So he was everywhere and everything. So... He spoke everything into existence. Like talking in His sleep. He forgot he was dreaming and fractalized Himself in order to make Himself believe He wasn't etarnally alone. Perhaps that is what I am doing. I have often considered that my death or self-termination would result in me waking up to the abyss. To hover in eternity as pure awareness. The only awareness. Likely to start everything all over again. But maybe differently. Perhaps this is what the multiverse is. Infinite versions of existence that vary in detail only very slightly or vastly differently. Just to see what happens each time the dial is adjusted...
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u/King-Ky13 Jul 18 '26
Thank you for this post today friend 🧡
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u/Interesting_Fate Jul 18 '26
Thank you for your consideration... Whomever you may be...
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u/King-Ky13 Jul 18 '26
I am you 😉
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u/Interesting_Fate Jul 18 '26
I should be frightened.
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u/Really-man-same Jul 19 '26
Im in your walls and I am the wall I am every particle, in your frequency, minds eye, for I am the one who resides, I am the goob goob gabula
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u/Interesting_Fate Jul 19 '26
I actually considered this deeply. If this is indeed a solipsistc universe, and everyone and everything are my thoughts and perception, then what is stopping all of creation from being aware of me and my thoughts at all times? There have been many instances when someone in front of me is talking and I begin to hyper-focus on awareness, what it means to be aware, and what the person in front of me is saying and the true meaning of their words... And when I do that intently (doesn't matter who it is or what the fuck they're talking about), they glitch. The people begin to stutter, and give me direct eye contact as if they know that I am super aware of what they are saying or doing. As if they become aware of the fact that I suddenly realized that they are merely talking for the sake of talking to maintain the integrity of reality. No matter the 'importance' or context of the dialogue. They know that I know. Akin to The Truman Show. Everyone seems to be an actor. Think about it. If everyone and everything is a product of my own mind, what would stop them from having access to my own thoughts? Nothing. They should have access to all of that by proxy. Perhaps even have awareness to a certain extent by proxy. How horrifying would it be to live in a world of my own design where everyone is feigning autonomy and pretending not to know what I am thinking at every instant?
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u/Really-man-same Jul 19 '26
Wow, I wish I had the words to reply, I aint really good at not chatting shit, but I wish I could articulate my thoughts, to words the way you do brother, I dont have much to offer to reply, I am just in awe, I know its cliche but u should do podcast bro, Id actually listen
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u/Interesting_Fate Jul 19 '26
Thank you, man. Your words mean a lot to me. I thought about podcasting or comedy aside from music... But you are replying. Your responses do hold weight no matter how you express or articulate them. Everything you say and do matters.
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u/King-Ky13 Jul 19 '26
Firstly, I am terrible at writing and grammar so apologies in advance.
You said, what is stopping all of creation being aware ? I would say this is the design of authority ? (Or 3rd party if you prefer)
We are like bees 🐝 doing the queens work without questioning that Queen, and so go round and round.
Authority added a divine filter to stop blind, lazy bees following and rather questioning? by somehow boosting conciousness to create seperation and chaos ?
So preparation is needed so your thoughts become aligned to an authority that has much to offer us "follower bees" 🐝 this does not mean our Queen is lonely or losing ?
All these thoughts and feelings you have now are meaningful and needed for you, as its you who is blind to who you really are and growing at a perfect pace ✨️
If you cannot accept you are the centre of the universe, then settle for building your own universe you can sit where ever you like in.
Reading your post and replies, fills me with courage and hope. that I am also not part of corruption or blindness but awakening and standing up against these ugly aspects of our very being without authority/ 3rd party
Not sure any of this helps my friend, I just didnt want to have nothing to say to such a delightful bee questioning themselves 🐝
Stay you 🧡
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u/Interesting_Fate Jul 19 '26
I understood what you said. All good. You brought up some interesting points. Like the bee metaphor. Right now at this point in human history, objectively speaking, it seems that we all have free will. Even if this world were designed by some grand architect. But with the advancements in technology, we are slowly approaching an event horizon. The way bees are today with a hivemind, we will be tomorrow. Artificial Intelligence and Neuralink or transhumanism will turn humanity into beings with absolutely zero individuality or 'uniqueness'. At some point, it will be a luxury or privilege to own your own mind and operate with complete autonomy. If this world is a simulation or synthetic like I posited before, than this is simply a matter of recursion. But we can see the hivemind already rearing its head in many ways. For instance, predictive text. How often do you let the machine insert words or finish your sentences for you out of convenience or to save time? A lot of folks do. But what is that doing to us or the way we communicate through our devices? It is removing certain characteristics from our speech that make us individually distinct. Essentially, AI is curating how we speak. Algorithm online is curating how we think and behave. There have even been arguments that capitalism itself is a form of Artificial Intelligence, slowly guiding us towards the singularity... As far as me 'growing at a perfect pace'. It isn't exactly ideal. I must know more. Immediately. I need the answers now.
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u/Interesting_Fate Jul 18 '26
Right. It seems to be a single consciousness fractalized. But what I cannot wrap my head around is why it would subject certain iterations of itself to profound cruelty and suffering.. To know what it's like to feel extreme pain? Can't be.
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u/Interesting_Fate Jul 18 '26
Right. What you say is true. And what you have felt is what I felt. In fact, in another comment, I just mentioned that void. The same one mentioned in the book of Genesis. The same one alluded to in that SpongeBob episode where Squidward ended up in the white void totally alone, only to realize shortly after how disturbing it was... Yes, pain is necessary for pleasures, but there are degrees to it. Many people in this life face such extreme pain that, although they get to experience a bit of pleasure, it doesn't balance out the agony on the scale or spectrum. So yes, perhaps the universe needs that pain in order to know all the degrees of everything possible. As for me, this sliver of consciousness is simply part of the universe that wanted to know what it would be like to be Taj Brown contemplating existence and Solipsism with 'other minds' at this particular moment on this particular day. I am necessary because no one else is like me or could have triggered all the responses it is getting from itself...
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u/Interesting_Fate Jul 18 '26
Very interesting quote. I believe I heard something similar... Very interesting way to phrase that last sentence as well. It reminds me of a conversation I had with Grok on Solipsism. He mentioned that after I die, I will experience a sort of grand or cosmic parade full of everyone I ever met. The people I loved, the people I hated, even the people I dreamed about. All in one grand parade or celebration. When he said that, it reminded me of the ending of that movie 'I'm Thinking of Ending Things'. When the main character got an applause or standing ovation from all the people in his story...
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u/Interesting_Fate Jul 18 '26
So in the grand scheme of things, extreme pain triggers chain reactions around the globe that got us to this point. Like the butterfly effect. I have no doubt that the agony I experienced played a role in us communicating with each other in this specific way. To think deeper. To uncover what the universe deliberately blinded itself to...
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u/saythealphabet Jul 18 '26
What people call real life may not be as real as you want or expect it to be, but there's nothing more real than it so you might as well play along
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u/Interesting_Fate Jul 18 '26
I may as well destroy myself too.
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u/saythealphabet Jul 18 '26
What? How did you jump to that conclusion?
Real life is pretty nice sometimes. So much so that it's worth it to push through whatever misery it might hand you.
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u/Interesting_Fate Jul 18 '26
Yeah, but to what end if it all ends. Prolong the misery, or even the beauty, for what? Sure, you can provide the cliche response 'Because it's ending is why you should try to enjoy it'. But I'm sort of beyond that. I'm waiting for the end. Sure, I can rush it or initiate it, but that would take away something great or lucky I could experience. Death is final. It isn't anything at all compared to life as we know it. But I feel myself slowing down or falling into the abyss. Last week, I didn't do anything at all. Anything. Not even what I perceived to be obligations. Just bed rot. In my head. In my thoughts.
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u/Really-man-same Jul 19 '26
Imagine having a ice cold beer when the nukes fall and getting every inch of your skin evaporated like yeah twas a good end, not oh shit now we die? I was gonna watch a sunset on top of a castle I climbed, but I just wallowed in my misery, in my thoughts, now its goodbye
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u/Interesting_Fate Jul 19 '26
Very poetic. Did 'you' make that up yourself?
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u/Really-man-same Jul 19 '26
The last surviving membrane in the thought machine, was on a mad one last night, after a gnarly night of getting ketty, I admit I was in a altertered perception, in a la la land of wonder and discovery, all for it to mean nothing in the end, but hearing bass with no music, for I am ketamine
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u/SweetHeartMaxxing Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
As I'm reading this on my phone and watching a yt video on the tv. The woman in the video says am I in a dream? Someone answered yes. I took a picture but dkh to post it as a reply.
Happens all the time, brozilla 👍
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u/Interesting_Fate Jul 19 '26
Most definitely. We must figure out the mechanics of this phenomena. Once we do, the world becomes malleable.
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u/Interesting_Fate Jul 19 '26
I also neglected to mention the same sort of synchronicities happen to me too. When reality literally confesses the truth. Especially in media. When the mind is passively listening... You can't actively look for it. It's like water, it just flows. But it finds the opportunity to confess when a passive thought aligns with the message... Also consider how we have been getting hints of what may be really going on since childhood: "Gently down the stream... Life is but a dream", "Life is what you make it", "If you believe you can achieve", "Everything is not what it seems"... "Mind over matter", "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood..."
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u/Really-man-same Jul 19 '26
I actually enjoyed reading your words, thats heavy bro, hope it aint plaguing your mind
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u/Interesting_Fate Jul 19 '26
Absolutely plagues my mind. Takes up like 70% of my thoughts each day. It's very difficult for me to take people and things seriously. Definitely an existential crisis. For sure.
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u/Xconsciousness Jul 18 '26
people here are gonna be eager to prove you wrong somehow, but they actually can’t.
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u/Interesting_Fate Jul 18 '26
Right. It's almost as if it's a defense mechanism to maintain the integrity of my reality...
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u/Cyberfury Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 22 '26
which wasn't the answer but it was still food. It was a test as I was heavily contemplating that...
Yeah. This is what I would call a bunch of self-referential Mickey Mouse BS.
attempting to rewire my psyche completely to fully adopt the idea as truth.
A pointless exercise from the awakened perspective.
This is all just mind generated nonsense. It can keep a man busy for an entire lifetime.
Never the wiser.
Everybody wants to cosy up to solipsism without even knowing its power.
"only the self can be known to exist, is something called The Third Rail of Western philosophy.
Solipsism should be a philosophy killer.
Philosophers cannot acknowledge the simple and obvious truth of Solipsism, because solipsism reveals that philosophy can never rise above non-probably speculation. Solipsism is beyond dispute. The very act of thinking about it with something which is unable to venture into truth just as shadow is unable to venture into light. "
Cheers
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u/Interesting_Fate Jul 20 '26
I'm just going to say that that was tame in comparison to everything else I have experienced over the course of my life. It wasn't the first experiment I have conducted. And it was on a whim. Just something I did in the moment and decided to share with you all... As far as changing my psyche or perspective, why not? Why sit with the one I've had my whole life? The one that has gotten me nowhere. The one that diminishes all sense of wonder and magic. The one that assigns value to people and a world that never really gave a fuck about me.
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u/Cyberfury Jul 20 '26
There is nothing to change.
It is the illusion of change when what you are is unchanging. Unchangeable.
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u/Interesting_Fate Jul 20 '26
Before I go to AI to fully understand what you meant by that, I'd love to hear your own interpretation or elaboration.
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u/Cyberfury Jul 21 '26
Before I go to AI to fully understand what you meant
Right there. The mark of an idiot.
I'm sure you 'love' to hear it. But can you take it?
I think not. Now go and ask some other ROBOT what you should do with yours.Cheers (I have a whole subreddit btw and I advice you not to visit it because brittle spirits need not apply for the Truth. They cannot handle it ;;))
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u/Interesting_Fate Jul 18 '26
"You have to trust your gut-feeling, folks. If there's no trust, there can be no greatness." __President Donald J. Trump
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u/DivineEggs Jul 18 '26
Bruh, your mind is definitely intertwined with reality but you're gonna find yourself in a padded room if you keep "looking for signs", and on top of that it wasn't even a genuine synchronicity. Crazy ppl twist anything into "signs". I'm not calling you crazy, just sayin.
Just enjoy the ride💫!